Question

Cobbler:
Nay, I beseech you, sir, be not out with me. Yet, if you be out
sir, I can mend you.

MURELLUS:
What meanest thou by that? “Mend” me, thou saucy fellow?

Cobbler:
Why, sir, cobble you.

MURELLUS:
Thou art a cobbler, art thou?



In this example, “mend” means “to fix,” but the cobbler uses it in a way that gives it a double meaning. Based on this interaction, what are the two ways that the cobbler can “mend” Murellus?




During a play, the audience learns from a dialogue between two characters that they planned a surprise birthday party for another character, Lucy